How to Make Your Blog More Appealing to Readers

There are many ways you can make your
blog more appealing. If you spruce up your blog some it can vastly
increase the number of page views you get. Visitors will not only
return to your blog but will be more apt to click through multiple
pages.

Blog Template

If you are using the default WordPress
template then you are wasting your time. You need to at least use a
free template to spruce up your blog and make it more appealing to
your readers. A better thing to do is to either purchase a custom
template that is either in very limited use or even better pay a
professional WordPress template maker to create a totally custom and
unique template for your blog.

Most everybody has read the TMZ blog
before. Go look at the TMZ blog right now. Now imagine if the TMZ
blog had the default WordPress theme on it. Yucky right! A great
looking theme for your blog is a necessity.

Another item to look at is making sure
your blog is easy to read. Some blogs use color variations that make
it very hard to read the articles without getting a headache.

Interaction

Interaction with your blogs visitors is
vital. Make it easy for readers to leave comments. Let the visitors
vote on there favorite posts and allow them to rate each post. Make
the blog reader feel welcomed and they will return and b e a loyal
reader of your blog.

Interesting Content

Make your blog posts fun to read. Maybe
add a little bit of comedy to them. Quality content that is
interesting and fun to read will lead many first time visitors to
your blog to return again. Return visitors in addition to new
visitors from Google searches will help boost your hit counter as
long as you keep quality content posted on a regular basis.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is free to use. If you
are not currently using Google Analytics to track you blogs stats you
need to add it now. There is a lot of useful stuff you can learn from
Google Analytics. One of the great thing sis you can see what search
terms visitors use to find you blog postings. If you notice a certain
trend such as a few visitors punching in Kool-Aid For Fat Guys then
you could write an article about Kool-Aid For Fat Guys.

Images

Images help break up the monotony of a
static page of text. Images help emphasize the finer points of your
blog post. Images on blogs are just fun too look at. Make sure each
of your blog posts contains at least one image.

Guest Bloggers

Having a fellow blogger guest post on
your blog is a win/win/win situation. The reader of the blog gets to
read an article from a new write which will help make your blog more
appealing. The guest blogger will get a new following of fans and
traffic to his or her blog. You as the owner of the blog will get a
link back from the guest bloggers own blog which means new traffic
and potentially new followers for your blog.

No Annoying Ads

By using Adsense you can keep your blog
loading fast and not irk the reader off. If you have a slow loading
flash banner ads or whirring gifs spinning around it will annoy the
reader and the will simply hit the back button on there browser and
never return again.

Custom Logo

Pay a website graphic designer to make
you a unique and custom logo. The logo will help brand your website.
If you do not have a custom logo you will need to get one soon.

Header

Design a new header or have the web
graphics guy that did your custom logo design a new one for you. You
can use a custom header to help emphasize your blog and make it
appear more attractive to help encourage repeat visitors to your
blog.

No Auto Play

There is nothing more annoying then
going to a blog or website and a music clip or video begins to play
automatically. Don't do it! If a customer wants to play a video they
can press the play button on there own

Bio

If you have a link to your bloggers bio
then make it amusing. Do not talk yourself up like you are King Of
the World. Make fun of yourself and point out your fallacies so that
readers of the blog will smile, laugh, and be able to relate to you.
If you make yourself out to be a know it all then your readers that
do stick around will constantly be trying to prove you wrong.

Easy To Read

make sure your text is easy to read and
do not use bright colors that may mute the text unless the bright
colors goes with your blogs niche and target audience.

Results

When you create new ways to make your
blog more appealing to readers you will be able to consistently
increase the number of page views you get each month. The more page
views you get the more money you can make off of ads with Google
Adsense.

If you are not receiving many return
visitors to your blog or the average number of page views per visitor
is extremely low then you must immediately start looking at which
things you will implement to help increase the appeal of your blog.

In the early days of the internet you
could have successful Geo Cities website with spinning gifs and web
pages with "Under Construction" graphics. Today the world wide
web has changed drastically. No longer ill you get rich with a crappy
looking website. There are a few websites that look like crap and
make a lot of money but if you are entering the game new then you
need your blog to appeal to a wide range of visitors. It is now
easier then ever to get rich with a blog by using Google Adsense but
you must be willing to put in a lot of work and make the blog appeal
to a lot of people. Image Credit: (Flickr/sfmissions.com)

Comments

Mar 30, 2010 11:41pm

eileen
Well written as usual, I have just started another blog but did the google one and for some reason it is hooked up to another one. Cant work out why. But thats life. Thanks for sharing this info.

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